A comprehensive review of thermal management in solid oxide fuel cells: Focus on burners, heat exchangers, and strategies

M Li, J Wang, Z Chen, X Qian, C Sun, D Gan, K **ong… - Energies, 2024 - mdpi.com
Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs) are emerging as a leading solution in sustainable power
generation, boasting high power-to-energy density and minimal emissions. With efficiencies …

A Comprehensive Review of Modeling of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells: From Large Systems to Fine Electrodes

Z Wu, P Zhu, Y Huang, J Yao, F Yang, Z Zhang… - Chemical …, 2025 - ACS Publications
Commercialization of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) systems requires improved SOFC
performance and durability, which is highly dependent on the coupling of the SOFC stack …

Numerical study of temperature distribution in tubular segmented-in-series SOFC with co-flow and counter-flow arrangements

X Liu, SD Sun, Y Dai, HY Zhang, CX Li - International Journal of Hydrogen …, 2024 - Elsevier
Tubular segmented-in-series solid oxide fuel cells (SIS–SOFCs) are great for industry
because they work more efficiently. Temperature uniformity directly affects thermal stress …

Analyzing the thermal and electrical performance of a tubular SOFC with inserts by mass transfer coefficients

B Zhao, H Jian, Y Qian, W Zhuge, Y Zhang… - Applied Thermal …, 2024 - Elsevier
Low power density and large temperature gradient are the key factors restricting the wider
adoption of solid oxide fuel cell stacks in powering vehicles. Placing inserts in the flow …

Self-adaptive heat management of solid oxide electrolyzer cell under fluctuating power supply

A Sun, W Shuai, N Zheng, Y Han, G **ao, M Ni… - Energy Conversion and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Solid oxide electrolyzer cell (SOEC) can efficiently reduce CO 2/H 2 O into CO/H 2 using
renewable powers. But the fluctuating nature of renewable energy can significantly change …

Local heat generation management for temperature gradient reduction in tubular solid oxide fuel cells

C Hao, Z Zeng, B Zhao, Y Qian, W Zhuge… - Applied Thermal …, 2022 - Elsevier
Reducing the temperature gradient in solid oxide fuel cells could improve their working
stability. In this study, we have constructed a 2D-axisymmetric model to investigate the effect …

A reduced-order electrochemical model for analyzing temperature distributions in a tubular solid oxide fuel cell stack

C Hao, B Zhao, A Essaghouri, Y Qian, W Zhuge… - Applied Thermal …, 2023 - Elsevier
It is challenging to improve the computational efficiency of temperature predictions in tubular
solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) stacks, since the complex flow field usually leads to non-uniform …

Effect of radial flows in fuel channels on thermal performance of counterflow tubular solid oxide fuel cells

Z Zeng, B Zhao, C Hao, A Essaghouri, Y Qian… - Applied Thermal …, 2023 - Elsevier
Increasing the volumetric power density of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) stacks could enable
their wider adoption in powering vehicles. The radial flows generated by inserts in gas …

Research on the effect of connected cable-type channel structure and flow field arrangement on the performance of SOFC

L Fu, H Liu, J Liu, Z Hua, H Lin - International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
In order to address Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) the issues of uneven gas distribution and
low fuel utilization rate in conventional straight-channel. In this research, a connected cable …

Design of novel flow channels of tubular biomass-syngas fueled SOFC towards uniform temperature distribution

Z Wu, P Zhu, J Yao, MRA Mansor, J Chen… - … Energy Technologies and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) may suffer structural damage even performance
degradation caused by large temperature gradient at high temperature. Therefore, it is …